150 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Head of Sassaby. From a specimen shot in Mashonaland by Mr. F. C. Selous. 
The SASSABY or BASTARD HARTEBEEST (Damaliscus lunatus). 
Incolomo, Matabili. Luchu, Masara. 
Ingalowana, Basuto. Mtengo, Chilala and Chibisa. 
Inkweko, Masubia. Mzanct, Swazi. 
Inyundo, Makalaka. Mezanzi, Zulu. 
Kabolt, Barotsi and Negami. Unchuru, Makuba. 
Horns short, starting obliquely outwards, with a single upward and 
backward lunate curve. Height at shoulder from 3 feet 10 inches to 
4 feet. General colour dark chestnut-red, with the face, shoulders, hips, 
upper portions of limbs, and tail-tuft black, and the region of the groin 
and margin of the ears white. 
The sassaby has the reputation—in the opinion of all hunters 
who have tested its speed—of being the fleetest and most enduring 
antelope in South Africa; and were it not that, in common with the 
Cape hartebeest, it happens to be lacking in presence of mind, it would 
very seldom fall to the sportsman’s rifle. A troop of sassaby may be 
often turned from its course, or brought to a halt, by firing over the 
heads of the fleeing animals. Or if the leader of the troop be wounded 
and turned out, the rest of the herd become confused and now and again 
offer easy shots. 
